iB::Topic::HD Install Win XP and Grub!

	Damn Small Linux :: Damn Small Linux Board The DSL Forums

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

Damn Small Linux Board » Damn Small Linux » HD Install » HD Install Win XP and Grub!

		Mini-ITX Boards Sale, Fanless BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each!
		Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic

Pages: (4) </ [1] 2 3 4 >/

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

Topic: HD Install Win XP and Grub!

< Next Oldest | Next Newest >

neonuke

Group: Members
Posts: 17
Joined: Nov. 2005

Posted: May 28 2006,12:51

Hi everyone,

I've had some success installing DSL before, but now trying to do it on a machine already running WinXP is giving me headaches

I have the following setup:

Windows XP: hda1
DSL: hdc1
Linux Swap: hdc2

I can get past the HD install, but when I restart it doesn't boot up with Grub, just goes straigt to Win XP

Following the advice of several threads I've tried the following:

1.
Boot using LiveCD, then
$grub
> root (hd2,0)
Error 21: Selected disk does not exist

2.
Boot using LiveCD,
#grub-install /dev/hda
/dev/cloop does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.

3.
Boot LiveCD.
Mount hdc1
edit /boot/grub/menu.lst with the following:

title Windows XP
root (hd0,0)
chainloader+1
makeactive
boot

None of the above have worked for me, what is going on? I suspect it may be the disk geometry, I'm not really sure, I have no experience with MBR stuff. Any help is appreciated.

neonuke

piccolo

Group: Members
Posts: 286
Joined: Mar. 2006

Posted: May 29 2006,10:47

You says that you have a hard disk labeled "hda" and another labeled "hdc" by DSL.
But then also you have other hard disk labeled "hdb"? Is say, the question is how many hard disks have you?
If you have only two hard disks then you have:

Windows XP: hda1
DSL: hdb1
Linux Swap: hdb2

Then the lines from /boot/grub/menu.lst should be:
.....
title DSL on /hdb1
root (hd1,0)
.....

I recommend you boot from LiveCD and then to check the /boot/grub/menu.lst file.

Note: When you execute the hd-install script autotically edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. You must answer correctly the question that does the hd-install script only.

--------------
Robin Hood used Linux

neonuke

Group: Members
Posts: 17
Joined: Nov. 2005

Posted: May 30 2006,03:47

I do have only two hard drives, and they are hda and hdc, because hdb is my CD drive.

hs7sv

Group: Members
Posts: 247
Joined: June 2005

Posted: May 30 2006,04:52

neonuke, I suggest you to put DSL image in hda2, same HDD with XP. You need GRUB boot loader in the primary HDD. If so, you need to re-partition (by PartitionMagic) hda1 and hda2:-

Windows XP : hda1 (Primary Master)
DSL (~100MB) : hda2 (Primary Master) - ext2
Linux Swap : hdb1 (Primary Slave) - swap
DSL Data/myDSL : hdb2 (or hda1 if you don't need another partition) - ext2
CD-ROM : hdc1 (Secondary Master)

Good luck

--------------
"My advice is to just return hardware that does not work with a plain Linux kernel, right to the place where you bought it, and ask for your money back..."

Klaus Knopper

pr0f3550r

Group: Members
Posts: 378
Joined: Dec. 2005

Posted: May 30 2006,18:30

neonuke,
hdb is hda's slave. How come that a cdrom is a salve of a harddisk? I don't think it's even possible.

--------------
THE QEMU FORUM: http://qemu.dad-answers.com/index.php

QEMU ON WINDOWS: http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/

How to use floppy, CD-ROM and hard disk - http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/HowToFloppyCdrom-en.html

How to use network - http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/HowToNetwork-en.html

19 replies since May 28 2006,12:51

< Next Oldest | Next Newest >

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

Pages: (4) </ [1] 2 3 4 >/

Damn Small Linux Board » Damn Small Linux » HD Install » HD Install Win XP and Grub!